Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit. It is presented each year by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is to recognize an actor with an outstanding performance in a movie. Since the beginning, the award has commonly been called the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
| Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor | |
|---|---|
 The 2022 recipient: Ke Huy Quan | |
| Awarded for | Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) |
| First awarded | 1937 (for performance in films released during the 1936 film season) |
| Most recent winner | Ke Huy Quan Everything Everywhere All at Once (2023) |
| Website | oscars |
Actors are nominated for this award by Academy members who are actors and actresses themselves. Winners are selected by the Academy membership as a whole.
Winners and nominees
changeWinners are listed first in bold, followed by the other nominees.
1930s
change| Year | Actor | Movie | Role(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1936 (9th) | |||
| Walter Brennan | Come and Get It | Swan Bostrom | |
| Mischa Auer | My Man Godfrey | Carlo | |
| Stuart Erwin | Pigskin Parade | Amos Dodd | |
| Basil Rathbone | Romeo and Juliet | Tybalt – Nephew to Lady Capulet | |
| Akim Tamiroff | The General Died at Dawn | General Yang | |
| 1937 (10th) | |||
| Joseph Schildkraut | The Life of Emile Zola | Captain Alfred Dreyfus | |
| Ralph Bellamy | The Awful Truth | 'Dan' Leeson | |
| Thomas Mitchell | The Hurricane | Dr. Kersaint | |
| H. B. Warner | Lost Horizon | Chang | |
| Roland Young | Topper | Cosmo Topper | |
| 1938 (11th) | |||
| Walter Brennan | Kentucky | Peter Goodwin | |
| John Garfield | Four Daughters | Mickey Borden | |
| Gene Lockhart | Algiers | Regis | |
| Robert Morley | Marie Antoinette | King Louis XVI | |
| Basil Rathbone | If I Were King | King Louis XI | |
| 1939 (12th) | |||
| Thomas Mitchell | Stagecoach | Dr. Josiah Boone | |
| Brian Aherne | Juarez | Emperor Maximilian von Habsburg | |
| Harry Carey | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | President of the Senate | |
| Brian Donlevy | Beau Geste | Sgt. Markoff | |
| Claude Rains | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Sen. Joseph Harrison Paine |
1940s
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Multiple wins
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Multiple nominations
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2 nominations (cont.)
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3 nominations
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Related pages
changeReferences
change- ↑ Beginning with the 1943 awards, winners in the supporting acting categories were awarded Oscar statuettes similar to those awarded to winners in all other categories, including the leading acting categories. Prior to this, however, winners in the supporting acting categories were awarded plaques.
- ↑ "The 86th Academy Awards (2014) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). Archived from the original on October 14, 2014. Retrieved August 27, 2013.
- ↑ "The 87th Academy Awards (2015) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). Archived from the original on March 10, 2015. Retrieved August 27, 2013.
- ↑ "The 88th Academy Awards (2016) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). Archived from the original on January 25, 2016. Retrieved January 14, 2016.
- ↑ "The 89th Academy Awards (2017) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). Archived from the original on March 3, 2017. Retrieved January 14, 2017.
- ↑ "The 90th Academy Awards (2018) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). Retrieved March 4, 2018.
- ↑ "The 90th Academy Awards (2019) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). Retrieved February 25, 2019.
- ↑ "The 92nd Academy Awards (2020) Nominees". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). Retrieved January 13, 2020.
Other websites
change- Oscars.org (official Academy site)